Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
WHOLE NUMBER 1883.
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The structure for the paper mill at
La Camas is completed.
Jack rabbits are doing considerable
damage this year in Eastern Wash
ington.
The postoffices at Endicott and
New Dungeness, w. T., have been
created money order offices.
William Jones, the wheat buyer of
Walla Walla, has purchased Benz.
CAsoy's (of Vansyo1N,a ~he~s at co eto.
a bushel clear of sacks.
In towing boom of logs from Sem
iahmoo to Port Hadlock last week, the
steamer Holyoke got caught in storm,
and lost 100000 feet out of the boom
of 100000 feet.
Chehalis county farmers are about
to organize an agricultural fair associ-
alton. The main features will be
modelled after the Washington Indus
trial Association.
The following persons have been
granted pensions in Washington Ter
rftory: Newton S. Reynolds, Puy-
allup; Timothy T. Burgess, Walla
Walla and Samuel Highlands, Cen
tralia.
A company of Ellensburg and Ia
coma capitalists has been formed for
the purpose Of putting a steamboat
on the Columbia. river to carry freight
and passengers into the Salmon river
mining district.
The Puyallup Commerce says one
big hop-raiser thinks there will not te
over a two-third's crop Of hops in the
Puyallup valley. Another one says
his crop will average one ton to the
acre on his 170-acre ranch.
Harvest hands are scarce in Walla
Walla and in constant demand, and
it is thought that difficulty will be ex-
perienced in getting sufficient men to
do the work, once harvesting is in
full swing throughout the country.
Owing to his continued ill-health,
Prof. L. J. Powell has rendered his res
ignation as President of the Terrific
rial University at Seattle, and Prof.
Catch, of The Dalles, Org, has been
appointed by the Board of Regents to
succeed him.
The Signal estimates that there are
fully 20O, 900 sheep in Yakima county,
which at the average wool yield for
this year Of a pounds head would
amount to 1,450, 900 pounds, and at 20
cents per pound a valuation of $780,
600, or about $83 per capita in the
county.
Mr.. Corkish, representing the Olym-
pia Pipe Company, is in town with a
proposition to build water works for
North Yakima costing $4,000. If
citizens will take half Of the stock, Mr..
Corkish's company will take the other
half. 1t is believed that the required
amount of stock will be subscribed
Yakima Signal.
The Goldenda!e Sentinel learns that
large party of railroad surveyors got
off steamboat below Lyle, on the
Columbia river, and understands that
they we're surveying the line of the
Vancouver, Klickitat and Yakima
railroad. Lyle is some sixty milts
north of Vancouver and at the mouth
of the Klickitat river, which courses
from the east side of the Cascade
mountains, and passes through the
south west corner of the Yakima In
dian Reservation, This move seems
to be an earnest indication that the
new line Of road will be built.
The Yakima Indians at Fort Sim
coe celebrated the Fourth Of July this
year in style never before attempted
by them. The Indians were dressed
in their native costumes and there
were professions, music, dances,
games and races, and speaking by
White Swan, an especially gifted
chief, and by Frank Meacham, an
educated young Indian, recent grad
uate of Earlham college, Indiana. In
the afternoon there was barbecue, at
which whole OK was roasted, and in
the evening display of fireworks, in
cluding some marvellous pieces of In
dian manufacture. Many whites were
invited by the Indians and were pres.
ent and joined in the festivities.
Last Saturday, at Seattle, Judge
Jones, summing up the proceedings
in the Miller murder case, pronounced
the following sentence: BY virtue oi
the law and by reason of the premises
herein, it is now duly considered, or.
dered and adjudged by the court that
you, the said Geo. II. Miller, be taken
hence to the county Jail of said King
county, there to be kept in close con-
inement until Friday, the 23d day o.
September, 1887, upon which said day
you, the said George H. Miller, shall
be by the sheriff of said King county
taken from said Jail to the place Of
exc ,ution to be in the Jail yard of said
King county, then and there to be by
the said sheriff hanged by the neck,
until you are dead, and warrant is
hereby ordered to be drawn in due
form of law and delivered to the sheriff
of said King county to carry this SEN
tence into execution as required by
law"